Cycling For Happiness

In all fairness she'd expected the water to be pretty cold. After all it was November and Summer hadn't turned out like she'd hoped and she knew well enough that what her family needed, really needed, was to get some sun on their bones. But there you goes, what you gonna do about it? So, even being short of money and that, she'd taken them all away for a weekend treat, a break she reckoned would do them all  a bit of good. It being out of season though, most houses were boarded up, yet she'd somehow managed to get themselves into a side street B and B. Trouble is rides on front is all boarded up for the winter too. As a result kids were generally pretty miserable. But they says change of scenery is good for the soul. So they says. Like I've heard if car runs on to your foot adrenalin gives you strength to pick car up and move your foot out. So I've heard. Still, no-one's really sure where she got strength to take all her kids into the water like she did.

Steve Coel

Running woman with small child

Steve Coel

Shopping Trolley

Like a dream it was just now. You barefoot and unconcerned across this wet road and it being early morning and all. I'm guessing you must have started the evening with shoes. But there you go. No CCTV following you, not here, not yet. But you're being watched my friend, trust me, you're being watched. Yes it's quiet around here. Well apart from the water from the broken guttering and occasional gun fire. Odd that. Guns usually start later, at a more sociable time. No real point this time of day. No-one to frighten see. This time of day is just showing off. So what the fucks you doing around here is beyond me. Thing is, I'm not being paid to worry about stupid little fucks like you am I? Better get on then. Now, if I can just get this knife in a bit further I'll be on my own way as well. Shit, was that gunfire again?

Steve Coel

Steve Coel

Carry on Waiting

Sunny day. Bad atmosphere. Looks being passed between people trying too hard not to know each other. Failing badly they is. Should do better. So what's the story then?

Suppose story starts on the street. Outside like. Always a good place to start a story I reckons. Begins with police searching a car. Wrong car as it happens. Other footies is holding some guy against a wall, while others check his jacket in doorway of the adult store. I understands they won't find nothing.

Morning. Early for some. Late for others. Someone, it seems, is clearly not making it through the day, is getting desperate and is needing some action pretty quick. Like right away. So. Quick snatch job is all. Bad call is what it is. Being watched see. Being watched quite closely as it happens. Decision time. For me. Do I let it go and carry on waiting? Or do I move in, blow cover? Luckily, for all involved, uniformed footie steps in. Very lucky.

Bit of a chase. Laugh that. Likes a good chase, who doesn't? Security joined in too. Laugh that also. Though twats they is for joining in because peoples quick round here when opportunity arises. So it is. Quick in and out, even though they knows cameras sees them all. And they knows security will be having words with them later. Poor bastards. But hey, what you going to do? I'll have a word prior like, it's what I does, my job. Like I tells you, my street. 

Steve Coel

Steve Coel

Q + A

Who? Where? When?

Them. There. Then.

Steve Coel

 

Crippled Landscape

' No good ever comes from doing no good. '

' A great song, sung badly, is still a great song. '

' The crippled landscape is holding the sky in place. '

' Knowing when too much is not enough. '

' Too old to rock the boat, but young enough to hide the paddles. '

' We are all prisoners to the language of children. '

Steve Coel: 2020 - 2021

 

Steve Coel